France
Practice Relating to Rule 103. Collective Punishments
France’s Disciplinary Regulations (1975), as amended, prohibits subjecting the wounded, sick and shipwrecked, prisoners and civilians to collective punishment.
France’s LOAC Manual (2001) provides that collective punishment is a war crime and that one of the three main principles common to IHL and human rights is the principle of security, which guarantees to every human being the right not to be held responsible for an offence he or she did not commit and which prohibits collective punishments.